He defended (in private practice) the Obama stimulus, some matter with Texas Teachers: http://www.thedailysheeple.com/read-ted-cruzs-2009-defense-of-obamas-stimulus-as-an-aid-to-americas-economic-recovery_042015
Though he has not been for a path to citizenship, he has clearly been for H1B1 visas to handed out and a lot of green cards.
But what ticked me off is by the time the North Carolina primary came around, it was dirty tricks again.
At first I liked him a lot but too many dirty tricks, if he is considered for the SCOTUS, he might get the Romney treatment.
He was an advisor to Bush in 1999. In it he came up with catch phrases so Bush could pass off immigration enforcement on the basis of children and parents... a soft squishy Leftist tactic. That wasn’t Conservative, and it didn’t help that he was backing Bush, a man I could clearly see as a moderate Republican.
From that point on, it seemed to me there was an ‘angle’ to everything Ted did. It could be described in great terms, but by the time you took a better look, there was an unseemly side to it.
By the time he was running, I was inclined to back him for the V.P. slot, the POTUS slot later on, and ultimately a SCOTUS slot still later on.
Then he started making prediction. Oh he was going to win the Bible belt for sure. He was the this and the that of Conservatism. I began to check him out better. I didn’t like what I found.
In some cases his complaints against Trump sounded just like the GOPe and top Republicans in Congress. That sent some warning shots across my bow.
Trump was winning open electons and Cruz was winning the heavily controlled Caucuses. Cruz predicted he was going to clean the slate in the Bible belt. The next thing you knew, he didn’t win a single one of them.
He won only two or three states East of the Mississippi, and only one bordering the Mississippi on the West. It was a total route for Trump.
Then Ted started winning caucuses. You know, you may win a few of them when you can’t win a state wide election, but you’re not going to win them all. He almost did.
What was the difference? Caucuses are run by the party, and Ted became known to me as a guy the party wanted. That didn’t sit well with me.
So I want from thinking I’d like to see Cruz get the trifecta, to thinking I didn’t want any part of him at all.
His Carson stunt, his claims of very strong Christian support, his trashing of Trump as if he caused the violence out side his events, his PACs and unseemly antics with Glenn Beck, I began to not like him very much at all.
Then he refused to endorse at the Convention, an event that is always very important as you capitalize on big momentum, Ted stole that from Trump. He refused to sign on and request his supporters to sign on too.
That’s a very big deal. Cruz supporters pass it off as if he was right to do it, or that it didn’t matter.
He wasn’t right to do it, and it did matter.
His feeble attempts to give himself cover so he could say he backed Trump were ridiculous. He knows it. We all do.
Going into an election that could honestly have meant the end of our nation, it’s Constitution, and everything we say we have supported our whole lives, and Ted couldn’t show up?
So here we are and Ted is running for office again (at least in my estimation).
Sorry Ted. Been there. Done that.
No.